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Sorry about that! As other commenters have mentioned, that was a holdover from our first generation lock. It has been updated to the correct price now.

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Ok, even though i am generally pro tesla and like musk, in order to prevent this from becoming a total worshipfest i will provide some facts that elon is not sharing.

It is true that tesla has made all their payments under the doe loan agreement. But they were not in total compliance with said agreement. The agreement required that tesla keep certain financial ratios up to certain levels, and tesla failed to do that. As a result, tesla asked trhe government to change the terms. The government complied but wanted something in exchange. What they wanted was early repayment of their loans. That is why he is talking about early repayment. And that is probably one of the reasons why they raised extra money (although elon is unlikely to admit that).

So that is the full story. It is no big deal, i think tesla are very unlikely to default on the loan, but elon was definately not giving you all relevant info.
ok I admit, got that quote from the calacanis + sacca interview, awesome interview btw
Did you just find it, or wrote it right now? either way, this makes the point of the top voted comment even stronger.
Headlines like this always remind me of the term wikipedia taught me: "Disambiguation". A simple Mitt Romney Calls Tesla Motors a 'Loser' would have clarified in the headline whether the author meant Tesla (the person), or Tesla (the car company). Leaving it vague probably gets more clicks.
For Context, from http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/presidential-debate-tran... :

(CROSSTALK)

ROMNEY: ... to oil, to tax breaks, then companies going overseas. So let's go through them one by one.

First of all, the Department of Energy has said the tax break for oil companies is $2.8 billion a year. And it's actually an accounting treatment, as you know, that's been in place for a hundred years. Now...

OBAMA: It's time to end it.

ROMNEY: And in one year, you provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world.

Now, I like green energy as well, but that's about 50 years' worth of what oil and gas receives. And you say Exxon and Mobil. Actually, this $2.8 billion goes largely to small companies, to drilling operators and so forth.

ROMNEY: But, you know, if we get that tax rate from 35 percent down to 25 percent, why that $2.8 billion is on the table. Of course it's on the table. That's probably not going to survive you get that rate down to 25 percent.

But don't forget, you put $90 billion, like 50 years' worth of breaks, into -- into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tester and Ener1. I mean, I had a friend who said you don't just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers, all right? So this -- this is not -- this is not the kind of policy you want to have if you want to get America energy secure.

The second topic, which is you said you get a deduction for taking a plant overseas. Look, I've been in business for 25 years. I have no idea what you're talking about. I maybe need to get a new accountant.

LEHRER: Let's...

ROMNEY: But -- but the idea that you get a break for shipping jobs overseas is simply not the case.

(CROSSTALK)

Regardless, I won't comment on this myself since I can't imagine any thread on this article staying clean...
What we have done for our development version is set it up so it can be in one of three modes. Always on (for passageways) so it consistently locks as you walk up and unlocks as you walk away.

Don't you mean the other way?
Can you guys clarify what happens when the lockitron's batteries run low, or the wifi's out, or your server is out?

Can I still use regular keys to get into my house?

If the wifi is out, can I still use bluetooth to get in?
I think the best part is: "Under the new rules announced Wednesday, however, if the uploader challenges the [Content ID] match, the alleged rights holder must abandon I'D [copyright] claim or file an official takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.",
as this will probably lead to content owners more carefully reviewing videos and also gives users a much better way to appeal a copyright claim.
For all music. You can select lines or stanzas, so it has all levels of scope in regard to the annotations.
Thanks for this - very cool! Also, thanks for the videos!
It's not the data, it's the delivery. If everyone could have a spot in all the major ISP's and datacenters and set up their own little racks, mirroring some interesting content for high speeed access around the world, then there's no need for many of the big companies that are currently raking in the dough (e.g. Akamai, Google, Netflix notice none of them own the data!).

When anyone can deliver the data by setting up a server proximate to the user, then it just becomes a question of what you have to offer. And then we see that none of the big players actually own any of the content they're serving. Suddenly they are not so valuable. If my neighbor and I run a crossover cable between our homes, that's about as "high speed" as we're going to get. If my neighbor has the same content as BigWebCompanyServingContentTheyDoNotOwn, then I'm going to choose to get it from my neighbor. It's faster.

In sum, it's the ownership of the delivery mechanism, the distribution channel, not the data. (That's why the media and entertainment industry are toast: as the internets gets bigger they cannot control distribution as easily. Eventually once everyone is online, they will have almost no control.) But what's funnier is BigWebCompany does not even own the distribution channel either! They just are the only ones serving up the content for you, from an ISP or datacenter at close proximity.

Instead they "control" things like email, web browsers, and server know-how.
Oh I'm sure they are counting on the rageviews. It is unfortunate for Tesla that part of the price of getting the loan from the DOE was to open themselves up more widely to the political process.
We already have NFC gear, and I thought decisions by vendors like Verizon and Samsung are largely the reason we can't just use that.
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if you are never going to tell future employers, etc that you took the courses, there is no reason to cheat. if you plan on adding these things to your resume, with numbers associated with them, there is definitely an incentive to cheat. most people on the site right now are there to just learn, but coursera is hoping the ladder will eventually happen. it is a catch-22 ... sort of
18 September 12, and already submitted MANY times.
If you had any uncertainty of what he was referring to (the person vs. the car company) you must have been living under a rock for the past year.
This article is wrong. He wasn't calling them losers he was saying that politicians in general don't have the ability to pick the winners, they can only pick the losers through their policies. He was basically saying that Obama was trying to pick the winners in green but that it wasn't working because the market isn't ready (basically claiming he is failing because government can't make an industry a winner through policy). He was also probably implying that Obama was purposely choosing Oil as the loser.
Nice benchmark, but it misses the point.

Yes, it's faster to create DOM elements in string form rather than one-by-one, attribute-by-attribute.

However, creating DOM structure in code sucks. It's far better (and faster) to create markup and deal with templates by compiling HTML files into strings in JavaScript files and then turn those strings into DOM structure when needed.

Once you create DOM fragments from singular, compiled strings, you can perform data binding.

So, instead of this (from your benchmark):

var $dropdown = $('<select class="s">');

$u.find('a').each(function() {
var $a = $(this);

$('<option>').html($a.text()).attr('value', $a.attr('href')).appendTo($dropdown);
});

think of this:

<select class="s" data-binding="{@source: aElements}">
<option data-binding="{@template-for: aElements}{value: href}{@text: aText}">
</select>

Consider "aElements" to be the collection of anchors, and "aText" to be an attribute of each anchors. These would be members in a model.

Writing markup to represent the presentation of data, and code to represent the logic of business is far superior to writing code that does both!
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This changes everything. Even if it wasn't intentional, the very fact the foreman didn't reveal he was sued by Seagate is a dramatic blow to this case (not that it was much of a case to begin with). I'm neither a fan-boy of either companies, but fair is fair and I believe the case has been heavily one-sided from the start in favor of Apple so it's good to see the corrupt wrongdoings in this case are coming to light.

If this case isn't thrown out, I will be very surprised and disappointed in the US legal system. Can any law experts here weigh in on whether or not Apple can sue Samsung again if the case gets thrown out? Considering it's so high profile it would seem like that any jury would have the previous case on their mind and perhaps make a biased decision.
In addition to what mbell said, another simple approach for making one sound seem further away than another is changing the balance of the direct vs. reverberant sound (more distant == more reverberant sound, lower direct sound volume). This would happen naturally in a stereo recording with two microphones, and can also be done artificially.
Why would Romney have anything at all to say about Nikola Tesla?
In my wp-config.php file I have the following logic

https://gist.github.com/3831423
Desktop 3D printer in cost effective price looks impressive. Its design also looks good.
Meh. Tesla is still in debt (and had to renegotiate their loan at that), so Romney's technically correct about that. The major benefit I see from the Tesla project is it puts pressure on other companies to make better electric cars.

I really hope they go mainstream, but it seems they're not targeting the average Joe. If it's going to be an "energy" project, it needs to go mainstream, like the Nissan Leaf or the Chevy Volt. I just don't see why the government should be sponsoring a company that will probably only ever sell to upper and upper-middle class customers.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Tesla company, but I think there were more interesting points of the debate than this. To be fair, Romney didn't single out Tesla; it was lumped in with other projects that haven't proven successful yet.
While clarity is nice, it probably isn't necessary in this case. Heck, they could have left off "Mitt" and we could still safely assume the article wasn't about George Romney bagging on ol' Nikola.
This is proof that any sentiments toward / away from a company are not based on "trends" but on actions, if you make good products / tools, open source them, listen to the community / market and not try to change it, then people will follow. Someone is making some great decisions there, and if I was a Google decision maker, I would have gave him/her a job offer very quickly. Microsoft is trendy again, using git, sponsors jQuery, develops VIM emacs and sublime text support? The actually caused me to download and use Visual Studio, 7 years after I left it for Eclipse? Comeback of the year for me.
Paraphrasing Chris Sacca, Elon Musk is one of the most under appreciated entrepreneurs of our time. Talk about someone willing to tackle the impossibly big problems...
This is a bad move on Microsoft's part and I hope this deal doesn't actually come to fruition. Spotify has the market cornered in this space and even they've been running at a loss for a few years now. I am a huge fan of these services, but this would be a bad move for Microsoft who have finally found their footing in the mobile space only just recently after countless lost millions.

I find this all a little too ironic given Rdio's current design looks like it heavily borrowed from the Windows 8 interface but that might just be due to the similar weights of the font being used on the Rdio homepage and bold flat colours.
Not even close!

Romney's statement was in the context of his reference to someone's joke making fun of Obama for picking losing companies. He was clearly calling Tesla a loser.
I'm the same. I still add it to everything, but I too rarely visit. I felt like it was over once cmdrtaco left.
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I've seen this done with specific bands, but this is a great idea for a website. Regardless of how well they execute, it's just a great idea. Lyric sites are huge, but many of them are rather crappy (I guess because they try too hard to monetize). Annotations of lyrics are scattered across many sites. It would be great to have them all in one place.

But let's hope it doesn't become like a CDDB fiasco.
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Is GM also a loser?
Did Coppola get his other job in wine before or after making tons of money from his films?
The larger "government shouldn't pick winners and losers" meme is idiotic in the context of alternative energy and green tech. It's basic economics that the market fails to pick efficient winners and losers in industries that involve large negative externalities.
Actually I posted this article not because I wanted to point out how bad Indian students are. Not all Indian students do this. And the Indian market is a usual mix of people of various kinds- Awesome, good, bad, horrible and even clueless people like this.

What I wanted to point out was how things work out in the real world. The thumb rule for describing these sort of things in India is the saying 'No good deed goes unpunished'. You will see most of these students doing these will actually win over the actual hard working guys. The guy who did the real project would have probably failed, or wouldn't have enough polish on his project. Or due to his sheer intelligence, and little touch of arrogance gotten out of favor of his professors. Due to all this he probably would have scored less marks, missed out the interview opportunity and then left to wander for jobs.

The guys who got the project done 'ready made', would have made their project look complete. Mugged up all the viva and etc questions. Got plenty of time to study interview books and questions asked in campus interviews. And due to all this would have easily cleared the already heavily gamed interview process.

So the net story is, if you cheat you are likely to win than if you work hard the true way.

When I joined the industry I noticed the process manifest in front of my own eyes. Every joe joining the company wanted to be a manager in 4 years, with a monthly take home of 1.5L, at least 3-4 foreign travel opportunities. Of course in highly political environments like large corporates, some played their old game and got through. But most who didn't had two options

a) MBA
b) MS in the United States.

I saw the very people who did all this once again went to tutions, cleared their GRE/CAT were granted bank loans to go study in the US. Most of them I know are working today in the US and probably will end up being US citizens.

The actual hard working technical guys(programmers, hackers or whatever you may call them) are treated like commodity, worst like a foot ball tossed around by 'business guys', because Indian IT religion creed says 'Being technical is not important, rather one must do smart work'.

So in the name of smart work, technical career has no growth path, no long term rewards. In order to grow and get paid well you have to be a 'manager'. Or worst work at a start up, where you are likely fail, not get compensated enough, Or if you are too unlucky work for a stingy/unethical founder and burn your hands then get back to your old MegaCorp back again.

When this is the routine cycle. What do you expect this students to do?
Yeah, the Ars Technica article is far better.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/youtube-finally-o...

The improvements to the content ID algorithm and occasional manual review of those is all well and good, but the far more important change here (as TimNN says) is to the counterclaim process. Before, you had the situation where the only person judging whether or not your counterclaim was valid was the very company that lodged the claim, which is ridiculous (and even if a company is not malicious, they could very well be lazy and just issue blanket denials of counterclaims).

A counterclaim now no longer goes into a black hole, but actually reinstates the video. If a company wants to counter your counterclaim, they then have to file a real DMCA takedown notice, with the normal DMCA process after that.
I wrote it after seeing the thread.

It's a pretty simple technique, but it's intensely resource heavy. If the op (or anybody) wrote a script that does this algorithmically to produce as few drop shadows as necessary while maintaining quality... Well, then I'd be thoroughly impressed.

Regardless, this clearly struck a chord with some people so I say cheers to the op! Easy or not, he did it, did it well, and captured peoples' wonder.
It's the sort of basic economics that is too nuanced for many people, it seems.
If the government is bad (or simply worse than the free market) at developing new industries, should it stay out of the business of giving subsidies to groundbreaking companies? Should this be left to chance? I suppose a more direct question is this: should we just sit it out and wait for green tech to be right? (Or for oil to be so costly that any alternative is better?)

What about the numerous areas in which government investment/research has paid off (eg. computing)? Could or should the free market today replace this type of public investment?

Just curious.
Tesla is planning a lower cost vehicle, somewhere in the 30k range.

Quick search turns up this:
http://www.plugincars.com/tesla-reveals-lower-priced-fourth-...

As I understand it their plan was high-price/low-volume to start and progressing towards high-volume/low-price as time went on.
I figure given the speed of writing, it was a poorly written article to take a soundbite and put it to a pre-existing opinion. It gets clicks and maybe a quick scan without providing the actual context. This is just one example of the next 24 hour news cycle from both side's news outlets. Job numbers hit Friday, so I only expect a day of it.
Which Mitt Romney are you talking about?
Thanks. I do build very JS heavy single-page web apps. Where I work we separate markup from code completely, and use MVVM to glue the things together. I've given an example above in reply to another comment.

People who write business code and logic often have little to no concern about tables vs divs, CSS quirks, and markup structure in general. Conversely, our UX people have no concerns whether we use MongoDB or SQL Server to serve records. They shouldn't have to. Our concerns are separated by using proper design and architecture, and we can work on things together while focusing on implementing our particular skillsets.

The script/markup mixture of DD and Backbone is not necessary at all, and it's a quirk because these frameworks (and others) make it one!
Online Poker Mafia blowin up huge. Strasser got his own hedge fund. Who's next?

"I wonder why one of the first guys to be involved, Ariel Schneller...dropped out"

He's been in Harvard Law School, before that working on DeucesCracked/crushing high stakes etc. Not hard to see why he'd choose that instead of working on a rap lyrics website. I think lots of people underestimated this team.

Congrats guys!
Just because a venture fails for its investors doesn't mean it's a failure for the economy as a whole. NeXT was a colossal flop, and yet look what came out of it in the end.
> This article is wrong. He wasn't calling them losers

He pretty clearly is rattling off a list and then naming them as (a) Obama/gov't picks and (b) losers. Really, the best defense you can get of his comment is "well, that's what Romney said his friend said, not what he personally said."

> He was basically saying that Obama was trying to pick the winners in green but that it wasn't working because the market isn't ready (basically claiming he is failing because government can't make an industry a winner through policy).

Is he correct? Over in a parallel discussion, someone pointed at this piece:

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/what-abound-sola...

which seems to indicate that the DOE loan program is actually pretty good at loaning to if not outright producing successes.
whatever unnatural advantages they tried to maintain

You think it's unnatural that heavy industries has fewer players than, say, fast food?
Also a problem for the Apple App Store - I recently moved countries and all the apps I'd paid for (including OS X Lion) were no longer available to download until I switched back my details to the old country.
Looking at the context, there is simply no reasonable way you can interpret what he said that wasn't calling Tesla a loser.
> Tesla is still in debt

Yes, they have debts, about $505M.[1] They also have $700M in assets.[2] Calling them a "loser" implies bankruptcy or insolvency.

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tesla-motors

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors
Lokitron looks great, but you guys have got to fix the UI on the unlock screen. Every time I see it I have to stare at it for a couple of seconds to figure out a). what the current state is and b). how to change the current state.

The swiping action is neat, but there's nothing in the UI to convey that swiping is what you should do. Also, the paradigm is really screwy -- if the door is unlocked, I swipe the unlock icon to be on top of the lock icon, which then transforms the unlock icon into a lock icon, but leaves a new unlock icon behind in the original place?

I think you would be better served by duplicating Apple's standard toggle switch UI (you can flip it to be vertical if you want to). You can also add a progress throbber to the (normally blank) slidable bit if you want to indicate an "intermediate" state.
>There is nothing prevent anyone else from adopting Objective C.

There's nothing preventing anyone else from adopting C# via Mono, is there? Also nothing stopping other companies from improving Mono.

>Google uses "Java" for Android.

Got them sued, too. I think they were within their rights, but this shows that "openness" is not synonymous with safety.

>It would be great if Microsoft simply open sourced it.
No arguments from me. I'd love that as well, though I don't see it happening any time soon.
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Interesting. Musks' political contributions are widespread, not to one single party, but apparently none for Romney, allowing him to make such a comment:

http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=elon+musk&...
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Yep, it probably should. Subsidies are just tax breaks in a different form. If the government really wants to get something, it should offer a contract to the first who can provide it. This worked in a couple of DoD instances and worked in civilian life with the XPrize. Funding individual companies is not the way.

As to green tech, if it does not become more cost effective and as easy / easier to deploy than current energy generation, we have lost anyway. China and India are following the path the 1st world took (coal / oil). I expect the rest of the 3rd world to do the same. Nothing short of force will stop that.
The spirit of the loan was to help a promising company make progress on its technology. By repaying the loan early, the DOE will be able to make more loans out of that fund to other such companies. This might not minimize Tesla's cost of capital, but I'd say it's the right thing to do if it doesn't add undue risk to the company.